I am not a fan of modern art. I am a fan of some modern artists. Salvador Dalí did some interesting things with surrealism. Piet Mondrian chased ideas about form and color from impressionism to neoplasticism. Jackson Pollock tore down ideas of structure and technique. The Golden Age of Comic Books directly overlapped Modern Art and contains some … Continue reading “Cans of shit and salt speakers”

All my life I’ve been a terrible fidget, and I’m easily distracted by visual stimuli. So in college I doodled and wrote stories in my journal instead of taking notes. As an adult, I’ve found that I tend to drift off into work if I use my laptop too much. But knitting keeps my hands … Continue reading “Rules for Knitting in Meetings”

About this time last year, a buzz formed around a gallery website that featured unconventional website designs that bucked the trend of slick, UI-centric layouts common around the web today. The gallery, Brutalist Websites, features screenshots of websites with a “ruggedness and lack of concern to look comfortable or easy.” Hype around the trend seems … Continue reading “Redefining Web Brutalism”